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Slave Case At Niagara Falls

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
August
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The story going tiie rou:ids of the pro slavery prcss, that tho colored people at Niágara Falla resorted to firo arms to rescue a slave woman and that severa) persons were vvounded, appcars to be incorrect. The violence was on the other side. Slavery is a system of violence and can be sustained only by v'olence. Our pale-faced Northerners were ready, as usual, to do the woi-k of their Southern masters. The statement of Mr. Cliase and Mr. Southworth in the Niágara Democrat is as follows : " During last eek, a Southerner was visiting at the Falls, having with him a woman whorn he claimed as a slave, con trary to our laws. Slie was kept sccludud - sorae say emfined - under circumstances to induce belief that sho was illegiill}' restrained of her liberty. On Saturday ho was leaving in tlie cars, the woman being aocompanied to the cars by tho landlord, the Southerner and one or two olhev men. A colored man then asked her if she wishcd to go back to the South. He was knockeJ down. A rov followed, in whicli Bevera] colored men were very mucb injured. Finnlly the Soulherner and wornan lelt ia the cars, and she bas prubably returned to slavery. In the cvening the house of a colored man was attacked with stones, &c. A gun was fired f rom the house, when the house, and property in it, and one or two other houses occupied by colored persons

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News